# Ameira Punvani

Ameira Punvani is an Indian costume designer and celebrity stylist who works in Hindi cinema (Bollywood).

## Career

Punvani graduated from Lady Shri Ram College for Women in 2000. She started her film career with Let's Enjoy in 2004. She got her big banner break with Yash Raj Films' Bunty Aur Babli in 2005 & Badmaash Company in 2010. She got noticed for her work in the period drama film Guru in 2007 directed by Mani Ratnam, for which she was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design and in the crime thriller film Rustom in 2016 directed by Tinu Suresh Desai, for which she was nominated for the Stardust Award for Best Costume Design. She was further lauded for her work in the crime drama film(s) David in 2013 directed by Bejoy Nambiar, by a blog - 'The Lazy Critic' which gave her the TLC award for 'Best Costume'.

## Personal life

Punvani is friends with film director Zoya Akhtar & actress Anushka Sharma, the latter whom she met on the sets of the Yash Raj Film, Badmaash Company in 2010. The two have maintained their friendship since, with Punvani being one of the few select guests invited to attend the actor's wedding to cricketer Virat Kohli in Tuscany, Italy in 2017. The two are often seen being affectionate towards each other on social media. Punvani was a guest at ASmallWorld / ASW's winter weekend gala held in Gstaad, Switzerland in 2013, along with actress Kangana Ranaut from India. She married her longtime boyfriend, actor Shiv Panditt in a private ceremony in New Delhi on 18 April 2018. The news of her wedding was shared by her close friends, Zoya Akhtar & Anushka Sharma via their respective Instagram handles.

## Filmography
### Feature films

* Let's Enjoy (2004) - Directed by Siddharth Anand Kumar & Ankur Tewari - Styled the costumes for Aashish Chaudhary, Arzoo Govitrikar, Roshni Chopra, Vinod Sharawat & Shiv Panditt
* Bunty Aur Babli (2005) - Directed by Shaad Ali - (Associate Costume Designer) - Styled the costumes for Prem Chopra, Raj Babbar, Puneet Issar, Kiran Juneja, Sanjay Mishra, Ravi Baswani, Virendra Saxena, Yunus Parvez, Tania Zaetta, Rajesh Vivek, Ranjeet, Lilliput, Rameshwari, Antara Biswas & Shaad Ali
* Zinda (2006) - Directed by Sanjay Gupta - Styled the costumes for Sanjay Dutt, Celina Jaitly, Raj Zutshi & Mahesh Manjrekar
* Banras (2006) - Directed by Pankaj Parashar - Styled the costumes for Urmila Matondkar, Raj Babbar, Ashmit Patel, Dimple Kapadia, Naseeruddin Shah, Akash Khurana & Arif Zakaria
* Guru (2007) - Directed by Mani Ratnam - Styled the costumes for Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Mallika Sherawat - Song : Mayya), Arjan Bajwa, Manoj Joshi & Roshan Seth
* Shortkut: The Con is On (2009) - Directed by Neeraj Vora - Styled the costumes for Akshaye Khanna, Amrita Rao, Chunky Pandey & Tiku Talsania
* Teen Patti (2010) - Directed by Leena Yadav - Styled the costumes for Amitabh Bachchan, Shaddha Kapoor, Raima Sen, R. Madhavan, Dhruv Ganesh, Siddharth Kher, Vaibhav Talwar, Saira Mohan, Jackie Shroff, Mahesh Manjrekar, Tinnu Anand, Shakti Kapoor & Ranjeet
* Badmaash Company (2010) - Directed by Parmeet Sethi - Styled the costumes for Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Vir Das, Meiyang Chang, Pavan Malhotra, Jameel Khan & Kiran Juneja
* David (2013) - Directed by Bejoy Nambiar - Styled the costumes for Neil Nitin Mukesh, Tabu, Vinay Virmani, Jiiva, Lara Dutta, Isha Sharvani, Monica Dogra, Milind Soman, Ajinkya Deo, Neil Bhoopalam, Sarika, Nikhil Chinapa, Saurabh Shukla, Satish Kaushik, Nassar, Shweta Pandit, Prahlad Kakkar, Rohini Hattangadi & Sheetal Menon
* Rustom (2016) - Directed by Tinu Suresh Desai - Styled the costumes for Akshay Kumar, Ileana D'Cruz, Esha Gupta, Arjan Bajwa, Pavan Malhotra, Kumud Mishra, Anang Desai, Sachin Khedekar, Usha Nadkarni, Kanwaljit Singh, Brijendra Kala & Parmeet Sethi
* Raid (2018) - Directed by Raj Kumar Gupta - Styled the costumes for Ileana D'Cruz
* Romeo Akbar Walter (2019) - Directed by Robbie Grewal - Styled the costumes for John Abraham, Jackie Shroff, Mouni Roy, Sikandar Kher & Suchitra Krishnamoorthi
* Section 375 (2019) - Directed by Ajay Bahl - Styled the costumes for Akshaye Khanna, Richa Chadha, Rahul Bhat, Shriswara & Meera Chopra

### Short films

* Positive (2007) - Directed by Farhan Akhtar - Styled the costumes for Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani & Arjun Mathur
* Deja Vu (2012) - Directed by Wong Kar-wai for Chivas Regal - Styled the costumes along with French costume designer Madeline Fontaine
* Chhuri (2017) - Directed by Mansi Jain - Styled the costumes for Tisca Chopra, Surveen Chawla & Anurag Kashyap
* The Playboy Mr. Sawhney (2018) - Directed by Tariq Naved Siddiqui - Styled the costumes for Jackie Shroff, Arjan Bajwa, Sudhir Misra, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Divya Dutta, Neetu Chandra, Manjari Fadnis & Pitobash

### Television

* Zara Nachke Dikha (Season 2) - Styled the costumes for Karan Singh Grover

### Web series

* Inside Edge (Season 1) (2017) - Directed by Karan Anshuman - Styled the costumes for Vivek Oberoi, Richa Chadha, Sarah-Jane Dias, Angad Bedi, Tanuj Virwani, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Sayani Gupta, Sanjay Suri & Aahana Kumra

### Music videos

* Ghoom Tana - Duet by : Salman Ahmad & Shubha Mudgal - Directed by Saqib Malik - Styled the costumes for Nandita Das
* Chalte Chalte - The Haveli Mix - A remix of the song from the film Pakeezah - Styled the costumes for Roshni Chopra * Pathway to the Unknown - Duet by : Amaan Ali Khan & Ayaan Ali Khan - Directed by Shiraz Bhattacharya - Styled the costumes for Amaan Ali Khan & Ayaan Ali Khan
* Mere Baap Pehle Aap - Title song of the film Mere Baap Pehle Aap - Directed by Priyadarshan - Styled the costumes for Akshaye Khanna
* Ishq Subhan Allah - Song from the film Mere Baap Pehle Aap - Directed by Priyadarshan - Styled the costumes for Akshaye Khanna
* Khoya Khoya Chand - The Bartender Mix - A remix of the song from the film Kala Bazar for the film Shaitan - Directed by Bejoy Nambiar - Styled the costumes for Karishma Tanna, Avinash Tiwary, Gulshan Devaiah, Neil Bhoopalam, Rajkummar Rao, Kirti Kulhari & Shiv Panditt
* Fuk Fuk Fukrey - Title song of the film Fukrey - Directed by Shujaat Saudagar - Styled the costumes for Pulkit Samrat, Ali Fazal, Manjot Singh, Varun Sharma, Priya Anand & Vishakha Singh
* Lag Gayi Lottery - Song from the film Fukrey - Directed by Shujaat Saudagar - Styled the costumes for Pulkit Samrat, Ali Fazal, Manjot Singh, Varun Sharma, Priya Anand & Vishakha Singh
* Tan Tan Tan - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan - Right to Education Scheme (Educational Initiative Video) - Directed by Shujaat Saudagar - Styled the costumes for Anushka Sharma
* Phool Khil Jayenge - Tikakaran Abhiyan - Child Immunization Scheme (Educational Initiative Video) - Directed by Ruchi Narain - Styled the costumes for Farhan Akhtar
* Ishq Karenge - Song from the film Bangistan - Directed by Shujaat Saudagar - Styled the costumes for Pulkit Samrat, Jacqueline Fernandez & Riteish Deshmukh
* Maula - Song from the film Bangistan - Directed by Shujaat Saudagar - Styled the costumes for Pulkit Samrat, Jacqueline Fernandez & Riteish Deshmukh
* You Know What I Mean - Song from the film Rock On 2 - Directed by Farah Khan - Styled the costumes for Farhan Akhtar, Luke Kenny, Arjun Rampal & Purab Kohli
* Kudi Daru Wargi Aa - Song from the film Why Cheat India - Directed by Nitin Parmar - Styled the costumes for Emraan Hashmi & Shreya Dhanwanthary

## Awards

| Year | Film | Award | Category | Result |
| 2008 | Guru | Filmfare Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated |
| 2017 | Rustom | Stardust Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated |